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Emil Kraepelin: Icon and Reality

American Journal of Psychiatry, 2015
In the last third of the 20th century, the German psychiatrist Emil Kraepelin (1856-1926) became an icon of postpsychoanalytic medical-model psychiatry in the United States. His name became synonymous with a proto-biological, antipsychological, brain-based, and hard-nosed nosologic approach to psychiatry.
Kenneth S Kendler
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Emil Kraepelin

2018
Emil Kraepelin, professor of psychiatry first in Heidelberg then Munich, originated modern psychiatric diagnosis. So it was a fateful error when, in 1899, Kraepelin made catatonia a “subtype” of schizophrenia (which Kraepelin called “dementia praecox”). He did so on the basis of what Kraepelin considered a downhill course and outcome.
Edward Shorter, Max Fink
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Two Faces of Emil Kraepelin

British Journal of Psychiatry, 1995
Eponymous lecturers are expected to make some reference to the person in whose name the lecture is being delivered. In this case my task has been facilitated by the fact that the first Mapother lecture was devoted to Edward Mapother himself. It was given by his successor, Sir Aubrey Lewis, who, as was his wont, furnished a comprehensive account of his ...
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Emil Kraepelin and Forensic Psychiatry

International Journal of Law and Psychiatry, 1998
Kraepelin's main positions in forensic psychiatry, that are understandable only in the context of his underlying psychiatric and, especially, nosological theory, are the following: (1) Criminal behavior, especially if repeatedly shown by the same individual, should be regarded as (or, in the strongest version possible, is) mental illness; (2) above all,
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Revisiting Emil Kraepelin’s eugenic arguments

History of Psychiatry
It is widely recognized that Emil Kraepelin explicitly advocated for eugenic ideas in his academic works. Given the renewed interest in related concepts such as self-domestication and neo-Lamarckism in different contexts, this article revisits his eugenic arguments by scrutinizing a section of his seminal work, the 8th edition of his textbook ...
Keijin Yamamura, Toshiya Murai
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Emil Kraepelin: grandfather of the DSM

Medicine, Conflict and Survival, 2015
The German psychiatrist Emil Kraepelin developed a statistical manual of psychiatric diseases long before the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM) was published. He classified numerous disorders in the 1880 s. During World War I he was one of the leading German psychiatrists, taking care of the thousands of 'Kriegsneurotiker ...
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